Effects of a multi-faceted program to increase influenza vaccine uptake among health care workers in nursing homes: A cluster randomised controlled trial

Vaccine

Volumn 28, Issue 31, 2010, Pages 5086-5092

  Looijmans van den Akker, I ^a   van Delden, J J M ^a   Verheij, Th J M ^a   van der Sande, M A B ^b   van Essen, G A ^a   Riphagen Dalhuisen, J ^e   Hulscher, M E ^c   Hak, E ^a,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Health care workers; Influenza vaccination; Intervention

Indexed keywords

INFLUENZA VACCINE;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NURSING HOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; ADULT; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION PROGRAMS; INFLUENZA VACCINES; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; NURSING HOMES;

EID: 77954757962     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2010.05.003     Document Type: Article

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